How to Restore Spam Blogs in Blogger (Blogspot.com)

Did your Blog ever get Spammed by Google, if yes than read below to know, understand and solution to get your blog restored.

What Are Spam Blogs?

As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating web-pages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.

How Google Marks Blog as a Spam ?

Below are some of the things Google has implemented to remove and reduce spam on our service.

• Automated spam classifying algorithms keep spam blogs out of Next Blog and out of our "Recently Published" list on the dashboard.
• The same classifiers are used to require an extra word verification field on the posting form for potential spam blogs. This makes it harder for spammers to set up automated systems to do their posting, since a human needs to complete this step.
• The Flag as Objectionable button in the Navbar lets you notify us of problem blogs that you find, so we can review them and take appropriate action.

How to Restore Your Blog ?

Google has a simple, 5 step protocol, which has been proven effective.  Please do in this order.

1. Read the articles, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=33fc69199fb4214a&hl=en.  Learn how to do steps #2 and #3, and why we have this problem.  Help us     to help you, and to help others.

2. Submit a review request. 

• Go To your blogger dashboard there you will find your spammed blog name 
• Below it there is an option to restore the blog.
• Click on the restore option and fill the CAPTCHA to request .

3. Submit an appeal.

4. Post here, stating that you have executed steps #2 & #3 (and when did you do so), and providing the BlogSpot URL(s) of the blog(s).

5. You then have to wait 2 Business Days. If after that your blog has not been restored, then leave a reply in http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=6607e65338f035a3&hl=en and they will escalate this to Google for you.

If you miss one step, the restore won't work.  You need to do #1, then #2, then #3, then #4, then #5.  These are not mindless formalities, they are logical progression, and they help us to help you better.

After requesting the status will be like this:

Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on Date of Your Request. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Within two days your blog will be restored.

NOTE:  Blogs are removed not only for spamming but for violating any Terms of Service eg Copyright Infringement, Links to Illegal Downloads, scraped content, content purely to Affiliate sites with no unique content etc. Blogs that contain content that violates their TOS. The blog(s) will NOT be restored.